page_title: Ethnosport Cultural Festival
section_title: Mangala
hierarchical_section_title: Ethnosport Cultural Festival / Sports / Mangala
caption_attribution_description: Illustrations of Ottomans by Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, 1707
context_page_description: The Ethnosport Cultural Festival is a 5-day sport and culture festival held annually. Sporting and cultural activities of the Anatolia, Central Asia and the greater Turkic world, but also Japanese, Middle Eastern and other, are held.
  For the festival, Yenikapi Square is transformed into a traditional looking Turkic- central Asian village with traditional tents, traditional sports fields and horse areas. 150 horses were involved in the 2018 edition.
  13 of the tents are set up by different Turkic countries and communities with a 14th tent for Qatar in the 2018 edition.
  Traditional crafts and dance are among the workshops given in the tents around the festival grounds.
  Over 880 athletes participated in the 13 ethnosports in the latest edition.
caption: Turkish girls playing mangala, 1700s
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